WORLD TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue CXXIII, 10 April 1937, Page 9

WORLD TRADE

SUGGESTED TALKS

NO INTERNATIONAL MEETING

ENVISAGED

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, April 8.

In reply to a.question;,in the House of; Commons, * the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley.Baldwin, said no. approach had . been ; made to. the British Government by other ..Governments on the, possibility of an international .agreement on. trade questions,, although various ;,inV formal .exchanges of views had taken 'place.:.' •'■ ./';] "... .■. *.;_..'.'■ .•.'..,. " ■■'■ \ The, British Government had; inquired, of the Belgian Prime Minister, Dr. Paul van Zeeland, whether: he would be willing to undertake a preliminary informal'■■■■■investigation in various countries as to'the possibility of securing, a general relaxation^ of quotas and other : obstacles to international trade.:, Dr.; van. Zeeland had been good enough''tostate -that he was disposed to accept this invitation. No international, conference was at present envisaged; ■'' . -'•'■.■"'.:! ' Mr. Baldwin's attention was drawn to a speech by the United States Sec : retary' 'of State; "Mr.v.Cordell-: Hull, urging the need for increased co-operation, -between the nations ■ of: 'the,.world.- He. was asked lf.he would consider extending the scope' of the agenda of the . forthcoming Imperial Conference to include this question.

Mr. .'Baldwin. replied: '.'The. .scope of the agenda ass already announced is, I think, sufficiently wide'to '.admit-'of a general discussion of this .question if the representatives at, the conference so desire." ■' ... ; '■■-.. ; ;■.';,■ ......-; ■.:.. 'A